Description Logic for the support of “Ontologies” for Clinical Terminology and Information SystemsSome ways in which they are and are not usefulPPT.ppt

Description Logic for the support of “Ontologies” for Clinical Terminology and Information Systems:Some ways in which they are and are not useful;Description Logics, Ontologies and Healthcare Information systems;What roles might “Ontologies” and DLs play;Healthcare Information RepresentationA Mechanism for collaboration and sharing;“Ontologies”, DLs and Health IT;;Even of the “reference information resource” it is just one part;What do we mean by ‘Description logics’ in this context?;DLs are an implementation Formalism;Focus on two use cases;Tasks Desiderata;When are inferences relevant;Three levels of ontology; Ontology Layers: What’s it for?; Information systems  resources;Reformulate the question:What functions can DLs serve for the Upper, Top Domain and Domain Content Ontologies?;Reformulate the question:What functions can DLs serve for the Upper, Top Domain, and Domain Content Ontologies?;What DLs can do for domain “ontologies”;What DLs can do for domain “ontologies”;Practical examplesStraightforward constructions;Practical examples: Limitations on Axioms;Practical examples: Limitations of Axioms;Property/Role inclusion can help;Mutual constraint and context;Temporal Context(Usually implicit in EHR structure);Two approximations in DLs;N-Ary relation solutionRe-represent treated_with as a class;A possible approximation in DLs without role inclusion;DLs often need to be supplemented by imposed constraints and patterns;Patterns, Transformations Interface to EHR Model;Problems in dealing with Anatomy;False problems: Time“Clinical content ontology” /terminology need only do what is not done by EHR model;Meta-ontology can make explicit the implicit semantics of the domain ontologyfor combined “ontology” and “EHR”;Weaknesses for terminology for clinical terminology and ISs;“What can I say about …?”“What qualifiers are allowed for ..”“Sanctioning”;Scaling: Technical;Scaling: Organisational;How expressive a DL do we really need?;